Beth Severy-Hoven specializes in Roman history and the history of women in the ancient Mediterranean. She has published a book on the development of Rome's first imperial family, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire (Routledge 2003). Her more recent work involves the wall painting in a house in Pompeii, and the roles of women in different dynasties of the Roman empire. Severy-Hoven has been teaching at Macalester since 1998. EDUCATION: A.B., Bryn Mawr College M.St., Oxford University, England M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Journal Articles
Gender, Sex, and the Domestication of the Empire in Art of the Augustan Age (with Teresa Ramsby), Arethusa (2007)
Reshaping Rome: Space, Time and Memory in the Augustan Transformation [Editor of Special Issue; Introduction], Arethusa (2007)
Review of: Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome, by Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, The Classical Journal (2007)
Review of: Princes and Political Cultures. The New Tiberian Senatorial Decrees, by Greg Rowe, Phoenix (2004)
PBS's Roman Empire: Once Again, History as Imperial Biography, The Chronical Review: The Chronical of Higher Education (2001)
Books